Georgia High School Junior Asks ICE to Release Him To Continue Education

Pascual Andres-Felipe is an 18 year old High School Student and varsity soccer player at Habersham High School in Georgia.

On February 3rd, immigration agents showed up to his home, and threaten to break down the doors if they refuses to open the door. Fearing for the safety of his family, Pascual opened the door, and was taken by immigration agents to the Stewart Detention Center.

Pascual came to the U.S. on May 2014, escaping violence after receiving numerous threats from organized crime in Guatemala. When he came to the U.S., his family hired an attorney to represent him in the asylum process. He went to all his check-ins, thought he had submitted all the paper work, and planned to go to his March 2016 immigration check-in, until his home was raided in February and placed in detention. As it turns out, the attorney that the family hired did not file the correct paper work and Pascual had been ordered deported in September 2014.

Pascual’s family is concerned for his safety. They fear that if he is deported, he will be targeted by the gangs that he was running away from. In addition, reports of murders of deportees in Guatemala and other Central American countries, mean that Pascual’s life runs a serious risk if deported.

Pascual and his family are now working with a new attorney to appeal the deportation order and have already submitted a request to the court. However, the Georgia Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office still has jurisdiction to decide whether to keep Pascual in detention or release him pending his case so he can continue his studies.

Please urge the Georgia ICE office to release Pascual pending the resolution of his case, and allow him to complete his senior year of high school.

Sign below to join the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) and the #Not1More Deportationcampaign in supporting Pascual’s release from immigration detention so that he can graduate from high school.

I am writing in support of the case of Mr. Pascual Andres-Felipe (A#206-724-633), currently in immigration detention at Steward Detention Center. Mr. Andres-Felipe is an 18 year old High School Student and varsity soccer player at Habersham High school who was picked up by immigration agents at his home. I write in support of his release, pending the resolution of his court case.

Mr. Andres-Felipe came to the U.S. on May 2014, escaping violence after receiving numerous threats from organized crime in Guatemala. When he came to the U.S., his family hired an attorney to represent him in the asylum process. He went to all his check-ins, thought he had submitted all the paper work, and planned to go to his March 2016 immigration check-in, until his home was raided in February and placed in detention. As it turns out, the attorney that the family hired did not file the correct paper work and Mr. Andres-Felipe had been ordered deported in September 2014.

Pascual and his family are now working with a new attorney to appeal the deportation order and have already submitted a request to the court. I understand that the Georgia Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office still has jurisdiction to decide whether to keep Pascual in detention or release him. I urge you to use prosecutorial discretion in his case, and release him from detention so that he can finish his senior year in high school and continue appealing his immigration case.

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